The NY Times’ Steve Erlanger introduces two new Arabic words to the lexicon of Mideast coverage. Now joining hudna and tahdia are fawda and fitna. What do they mean?
Among Palestinians themselves, there is a sense that the fawda, or chaos, is only increasing, and they see signs that the long-simmering conflict between Fatah and Islamist movements like Hamas will break out into a fitna, or civil war.
